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^ Quick and Dirty
Homemade Silencers

George Hayduke

PALADIN PRESS
BOULDER, COLORADO

Contents

Chapter 1

Why The Hell Should You Read This Book? 1

Chapter 2

Some Neat Things You Can Do With Silencers 11

Chapter 3

The Hayduke Homemade Silencer Shopping List ..17

Chapter 4

Your Last Chance To Be Legal 27

Chapter 5

Simple Designs For Simple Minds 41

Chapter 6

Clever Designs For Clever Smarties 63

Chapter 7

My Conscience And You 71

Chapter 8

For Further Study, Read These Real Books

Written By The Real Experts 73

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CHAPTER 1

Why The Hell Should You
Read This Book?

You have already guessed what this book is about,
haven't you? Did you cheat by browsing? Well, it's
true. I'm going to help you make silencers, right in your
home, from simple, everyday materials.

Silencers are very useful and fun to use. In simple
terms, they allow a firearm to discharge much more
quietly than the blast normally associated with a gun-
shot. Think about how useful and fun that could be!

The straight world uses silencers so as to not disturb
the neighbors while target shooting, or to muffle that
muzzle blast to make shooting more peaceful and
civilized. And a silencer can help cut down on that
awful gunfire roar that so often frightens first-time
shooters.

There are also nefarious uses for silencers. Some
folks are paid by other folks to shoot even other folks.
Quite often the shooter will use a silencer, especially if
he or she is a professional. In military combat, snipers
often use silencers so that the snipees will not hear the

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<N These very professionally designed silencers are intended for a submachine gun and a handgun. The SMG silencer has to be
made of steel and other heavy components because of the heat and stress caused by the high rate of fire. The handgun
silencer can be built of aluminum or PVC pipe. (Illustration courtesy of Paladin Press)

Why The Hell Should You Read This Book?

bullet with their name on it until they feel it.

There is an in-between world, though, which I
modestly call the Land of Haydukery. There are times
in the conduct of human affairs when it becomes nec-
essary to Hayduke someone or something through the
nonlethal use of a firearm, and prudent tactic suggests a
silencer. I'll suggest some actual scenarios a bit later,
but there are some preliminary considerations to
disseminate.

First, some explanations. Unlike the savants in the
field of firearm silencers (see Chapter 8), I am not going
to be technical or anti-semantic. For example, I will
call a silencer a silencer, unlike the picky correctocrats
who insist on calling them suppressors. I might refer to
a silencer as a can, because that's how the real
manufacturers refer to a silencer when they talk among
themselves, away from us mortals.

Another thing; don't look for a lot of math and
physics babble in this book. My silencer ideas just
make guns shoot quieter without any concern for
decibel reduction squared upon itself, or any other
mental masturbation that technocrats usually use to
baffle us with their bullshit. What you get in this book
is how to build a working silencer at your kitchen table
in less than an evening's time, using only common
hand tools and easily available, inexpensive materials.

That's right; your kitchen table, hand tools, hard-
ware store supplies, and my real ly-easy-to-fol low
instructions, complete with illustrations. That's it. You
don't need a lathe, or even have to know anyone who
has one, to make these very effective silencers right in
your own home. How's that for fun?!

Of course, there is the legal swamp. If you wish to
build or purchase a silencer legally, you can still do so

. j lo slowly Meed and di.sipate *. >»• ' h ” ’ *

■se-op detail show, how a <> silence*, Sniper. 4 tea

ls hot noise. (Illustration courtesy of J. Dav.o ru y,

Why The Hell Should You Read This Book?

This photo shows a variety of silencers recovered by Canadian law
enforcement officials. They are cutaway so that the serious scholar of
silencerology can study the design details and note the differences in
acoustical engineering. (Photo courtesy of John A. Minnery)

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as of this writing. It seems that the anti-gun Loony
Tunes are turning up the volume on their babble about
legislating silencers into illegality. Nonetheless, if you
can still purchase a silencer legally by the time you
read this, it will cost you a lot of money to do so, and
your name and fingerprints will be on permanent file
with the feds; not the coolest of situations for an active
Hayduker.

The next option is an illegal silencer. These can be
had quite easily, about the same way you might pick
up an illegal, unregistered handgun-knowing the right
person in the right bar, pawnshop, or other environ-
ment where shady entrepreneurs hang out. All it takes
is cash, with no questions and no paperwork. This is
very risky, however, because the federal cops like to set
up sting operations and other nasty entrapments so they
can bust people who buy and sell illegal silencers.

I'd avoid this option if I were you. If you must exer-
cise this option, please be careful. Trust nobody. Set up
cutouts. Play it very safely and stay out of jail. As my
old pals Lyle and Tector Corch from Idaho advise,
"Don't trust even Jesus with a used rubber."

Instead, why not make your own silencer?! You
don't have to be an engineer, master craftsman, or even
a machinist to make a silencer. Silencers are all around
us, just waiting to be created by modifying something
into something else that will quiet a firearm. For ex-
ample, turning a 2-liter plastic pop bottle into a silencer
takes only a few moments and a bit of electrical tape.

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CAUTION: It is illegal to build or possess an un-
registered silencer. You can get your sweet ass in a
whole lot of deep, murky, serious shit if you actually
build or possess an unregistered and therefore illegal
device. And since you're not a truly dangerous
criminal, the feds will bust you quicker and easier than
they would a real bad guy. Be very careful!

I included those harsh words to warn you. If you
actually take me seriously in the following pages and
illegally build, modify, or create a silencer and/or have
one in your possession, it is a major felony-type federal
crime. And believe me, the feds are out there laying
their repressive presence over the nation like the lid of
a pressure cooker. I certainly don't want you, a loyal
reader and friend, to become a victim of our nationa^
Department of Injustice.

So take my advice: If you want to build a silencer,
file the necessary paperwork with the Bureau of Al-
cohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) before you start or
even contemplate construction. You have to have their
approval before you begin any manufacture or take
possession of any silencer, as indicated on the special
federal forms that are reproduced in this book. That's
the straight, stand-up way to do things in a kinder,
gentler America, gentle reader. You also need to check
your state and local laws to see what the legal situation
is for silencers in your area. I really think you should
approach this carefully and legally, as I suggest in

Chapter 4.

So why do people build and possess illegal silenc-
ers if the penalty is so heavy? I already explained why.
Silencers are neat, a lot of fun, and often very useful.
Confused? Are you asking yourself if you should or
should not use the information in this book to build a

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silencer of your very own, and possibly use it in a few
of the scenarios presented here? Alas, there are many
decisional pitfalls in our world of social discourse, and
for me to say what is proper is actually improper. Use
your own vulgar judgment. When in doubt, however,
do the opposite of what seems to be right.

As you peruse the pages to come, think before you
act, create, build, or possess. But always remember that
old German proverb, "The silent dog is the first to bite."

CHAPTER 2

Some Neat Things You Can Do
With Silencers

Guns are portable, which is how handguns origi-
nally got their name, according to that staunch Left
Coast gun rights advocate, Ms. Jonni McNamara of San
Jose. It's no secret that we live in dangerous times in a
dangerous country. That's how people finally realized
what Poppy Bush meant by his famous "thousand
points of light" cliche— it's your dazed view just after a
mugger slams you over the head. Hey, whadda you
expect in a nation where Mace manufacturers advertise
in USA Todaytt But, I digress.

A silencer works exactly like the muffler on an auto-
mobile. The muffler alters and reduces the very loud
sound of an internal combustion engine's exhaust. A
firearm silencer alters and reduces the very loud sound
of a firearm's discharge. Simply stated, a silencer muf-
fles a firearm's report.

A couple of facts you should know. Silencers are
never truly as silent as they are shown on television,
nor are they as small as the TV cans. Second, silencers

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do not work well on revolvers because of the open
nature of a revolver's action -most of the explosive
sound leaks out through the frame and cylinder. Thus,
silencers work best on closed-system guns, like single-
shot, semiautomatic, or bolt-action guns.

Anytime you would want to fire a gun in a situation
where you would be happier if nobody could identify
the sound as a gunshot, you need a silencer. If you
want to disguise the sound of a shot so a listener thinks
he or she has heard something else, you need a si-
lencer. If you don't want a potential ear witness to
know from which direction a shot was fired, you need
a silencer. If you've read some of my revenge/humor
books, you can probably recall some situations where a
firearm silencer would have been, as Ollie North is
fond of saying, neat as hell to have.

So, as the wonderful comedian Steven Wright once
asked; "If you're going to shoot a mime, should you use
a silencer?" I really don't know the answer to that one,
but the following are a few scenarios I've come across
in my various lifetimes of experiences in which silenc-
ers were useful and/or fun. I am also including the
experiences and suggestions of personal friends whose
colorful and often shadowy lives have wafted into the
arcane world of silencers. Treat these next few pages as
either a menu of ideas or a creative compost pile of
potential silencer uses for your adoption, adaptation, or
modification. Or, just read for the good, pure fun for
which all of this is intended.

TREE SPIKING

This practice is credited to the EarthFirst! movement
and dear old Ned Ludd. It involves driving spikes, nails,
or other hard foreign objects into trees that are marked

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to be murdered by the various land rapists who cut
down too many to begin with. The idea is that the bad
guys' massive chain saws will be ruined when they bite
into these spikes, thus upsetting the cutters and not the
trees.

Obviously, pounding large nails and spikes into
trees makes noise, which will alert the land rapist bully
boys, a.k.a. security guards, who come in and bang
heads, arrest folks, and so on. Sooooo, why not use a
silenced gun to launch your projectiles? You can use
ordinary ammunition or special missiles (e.g., spikes),
which can be fired from some of the mini-flare
launchers sold on the sporting goods market. It's really
a rhetorical question.

SPARING A ROD

Perhaps you want to down a tree, or at least part of
it. My old pal Pedro Maxishields is a gun lover who
had a nasty neighbor whose sewer overflowed into a
third neighbor's yard. The nasty neighbor denied any
liability, then physically threatened the elderly neigh-
bor if he called the police.

"This sumbitch had a towering pine tree in his yard
that he was most proud of, and it sat right beside this
quaint little gazebo he and his shrewish wife adored,"
Pedro related to me.

"One stormy afternoon when it was thundering like
hell, I was struck by this brilliant idea. I would make
lightning wreck his tree . . . sort of.

"I hooked a big old silencer on the end of my
hunting .30-06. The damn can must have been two feet
long and thick as a baseball bat. I got in an upstairs
room across from that tree, opened the window, and
commenced firing that silenced rifle every time the

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thunder boomed or the rain was especially hard. It took
me twenty-five shots and about half an hour, but all of
a sudden there was this cracking groan and the top
twenty feet of this huge, top-heavy tree toppled over
and crashed destructively downward.

"The damn thing didn't land on the gazebo,
though," Pedro said, stifling a shrieking laugh. "Hell no;
it twisted around and fell right smack on the roof and
skylight of his new kitchen addition, a one-story add-on
less than two years old. Smashed the hell out of the
roof, and busted this big skylight that was one-third of

the roof's surface.

"The rain came in and wrecked their furnishings,
too. It took all kinds of people and time to clear and
repair the mess. His insurance people didn't pay either,
claiming the lightning hit the tree and that was an act of
God and nature. He had to take them to court to get his

money and that cost him, too.

Only God can make a tree, but a helpful neighbor

can bring one down in the interest of justice.

Good shooting, Pedro.

BODY PILING

I got this grand idea from several colleagues,
namely Max Rottweiler, juan Manureie, and Iron Mike
McGough, all rough-and-tumble gun lovers and liberal
bashers. I'll let Max tell the tale, since he is the most
literate of the three.

"There was this dweeb next door to our condo who
used to feed birds, which is cool," Max relates with his
lopsided, goofy grin. "He'd put out pounds of millet
and sunflower seed and twelve thousand flocks of birds
would come to feed on the stuff. Every flying glutton in
the Western Hemisphere was there. That's where the

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problem started.

"These birds would bring the seed to trees in our
yard to eat, scattering debris all over our place. There
was seed, hulls, feathers, doo-doo, and garbage every-
where. And the noise was unbearable in the early
morning. We asked Mr. Dweeb to please tone it down,
so to speak. He told us to stop harassing him or he'd
call the police. We beat him to the punch and called in
Mike's silencer."

Mike's silencer was a simple, homemade job
mounted on a finely tuned Winchester .22-caliber
target rifle. The boys loaded in some .22 shorts and
started to let fly at the feathered feeding frenzy. There
was no noise, no muss, and no fuss.

"Dweeb came over to bitch at us and we played
dumb and innocent; told him the birdies probably ate
so much their bellies exploded. Mike told him that he
was probably poisoning the birds himself. We also told
him that we were going to to call homicide and report
him for bird poisoning," Max said.

I suspect there was much coarse laughter over that
one, proving again that a bird in sight is better than one
dumping in your bush.

LIGHT OF MY LOVE

First, you have to realize that this amorous couple
get their jollies by making it in semi-public places.
Being refugees from the 1 960s, these flower-generation
geriatrics enjoy a post-dawn genital workout on a
blanket in the public park of their town. No witnesses
to offend . . . until the White Bow Asswipes showed up.

"We have some moral Nazis in our community, real
pukeheads called Citizens for Decency, who hate
anyone to have any sort of sexual expression or fun,"

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my friend Musio told me.

"These goat-sucking religious nuts talked the local
cops into putting up a large floodlight right near where
my lady and I liked to make love. We didn't bother
anyone until these right-wing religious fruitcakes began
spying on people."

Being quite familiar with those pious Bible bangers
and their rigid moral code for everyone, I tut-tutted in
agreement. Musio did have a solution, which he ex-
plained to me.

He and his lady friend, Pecha, continued to go to
the park. When they felt the urge to get naked and have
some fine fun with each other, Musio simply stuck his
homemade silencer on the end of his fine .22 target
pistol and extinguished the lightbulb. On behalf of the
religious loonies, it's probably a good thing that Musio
is a lover and not a fighter. He's also one hell of a good
shot. Then, as you know, the penis is mightier than the
sword, by lord.

* * * * *

Those are just a few situations in which silencer use
was fun, quite appropriate, and possibly quite illegal.
I'm sure your imagination and further study on this
topic (see Chapter 8) will allow you to create vignettes
of your own. Now it's time to see what you'll need to
construct a silencer.

CHAPTER 3

The Hayduke Homemade Silencer
Shopping List

Professionally produced silencers are usually gor-
geously machined and gorgeously expensive. Many of
them are so complicated that they baffle (ho ho) even
the experts.

Nonsense. Your silencer will be as inexpensive and
simple as you are yourself, or wish to be, or wish it to
be. There are some common items you will need,
though, to construct the silencers in this book. And, as
you might have guessed, here is where I will tell you
what you need.

AMMUNITION

You already know that most ammunition is super-
sonic, thus adding the sonic boom effect to your
problem of quieting gunfire. You need to bring that
round down to subsonic levels. This is done either by
using an already subsonic round, like the .45 ACP, or
by porting your gun's barrel into the silencer to bleed
off gases, thus slowing a supersonic round to subsonic.

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A common household item, like this empty aerosol can of Escobar's Cooking Spray, makes a fine improvised silencer, as do
^ many other items found in the home. Use tape, a compression fitting, or a hose clamp to attach the can to your gun. (Daryl
►— Gates Designs)

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There is another very easy way, which I recom-
mend. Simply buy standard or subsonic velocity .22 or
9mm ammunition in the first place. Caution: Do not tell
them why you want this type of ammo. Some gunshop
denizens suck up to BATF thugs by ratting on nice folks
like you.

For the serious student of silencerology, I present a cutaway model of a
highly complicated and highly effective silencer, designed and built by
professionals for the Sterling submachine gun. (Illustration courtesy of
Sterling, Ltd., via J. David Truby, The Quiet Killers II)

SIGHTS

You may have to remove the front sight from your
rifle or pistol to accommodate the silencer tube. Even
the original sights on many commercial cans are use-
less because of the silencer's bulk, so they are simply
removed to facilitate engineering.

Whatever the case may be, it is likely that your
silencer will be concentric, meaning it will render the
front sight useless. Therefore you are either going to
have to reinstall a front sight on the silencer and realign
your sights, or mount a telescope sight on the weapon.

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This silencer is from a ChiCom Type 64 submachine gun, a special-
mission weapon brought back from Southeast Asia for use by the U.S.
Army's Foreign Service & Technology Center. It is an effective, profes-
sional design utilizing a ported barrel and baffles. (U.S. Army FSTC)

These rare sketches show the current ChiCom assassination favorite, the
Type 67 pistol with integral silencer. The lower sketch shows the detail
of the baffle and screen silencer. (Illustrations courtesy of Tracy Barnes)

You can also simply eliminate a front sight. The way
many people can't shoot, it might not matter.

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TOOLS

You aren't going to need a workshop full of tools to
build these silencers. You probably have most, if not
all, of them in your home now. Here is my list of the
common tools you'll need:

1. A small electric hand drill, cordless or not, and
drill bits. My advice is to buy one of those plastic-cased
assortment packs of bits.

2. A good hacksaw. Actually, a hacksaw is better
than a small power saw because you won't be doing
much volume or heavy-duty cutting. The more precise
hand model is for you.

3. A good, solid ball-peen hammer is essential, as is
a good rubber mallet that won't scratch or mar the fine
metal finish on your gun.

4. Wrenches. I suggest both a small- and medium-
sized crescent wrench. Also, you could probably make
good use of a plumber's slip-joint wrench, and every-
one's old standby, a good set of vice grips.

5. A rivet gun and rivets will be useful for some
designs. You'll be working with light fastening, so
nothing fancy is required.

6. A set of files. Again, the usual prepackaged
selection will be fine.

7. A ruler, a metal marking punch, and scissors
round out the list.

MATERIALS

The list of materials you'll need is pretty basic, too.
Since I have no idea what type or size silencer you're
going to build, I will leave the sizes, amounts, and
quantities that you purchase up to you. The plans in
Chapters 5 and 6 tell you the specific items you'll need
for each design, so consult them before you shop.

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Another professionally designed and produced assassin's gun, the British
Wei rod is probably one of the finest and most effective designs in
silencer history. Its baffle design is shown here in cutaway form for study
by serious silencerologists. (Photo courtesy of Tejhusmuseet, via J. David
Truby, The Quiet Killers II)

What I am offering here is basic, generic, and
common materials. Like the tools, these are readily
available in hardware, automotive, and home-
improvement shops. Common caution suggests that
you spread your purchases over several stores to avoid
suspicion. And if I were you, I would not discuss the
purpose for your purchases with anyone.

You will need six rolls of black electrician's tape
and a roll of duct tape. Get good quality tape, please.
Pass up the bargain cheapie stuff-it's generally not
tough, strong, or very sticky. Epoxy is very useful to
have as well.

You'll also need lengths of both PVC and aluminum

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This diagram shows a commercial silencer designed in the early 1980s
for use with .380 and .45 ACP pistols. It is a simple yet effective
screen-and-baffle design that was sold commercially for a while. The
detailed instructions will aid the serious student of silencer design
greatly. (Illustration courtesy of A.Z. Santini)

pipe, in smaller sizes (e.g., 3/4-, 1-, and 2-inch). You
can make the determinations based on what size
silencer you want to build for what caliber gun. The
plans in Chapters 5 and 6 will guide you in this.

Buy either aluminum or copper window screening.
It has to be true metal, so don't buy plastic screening.
Again, the amount will depend on which plans you
choose.

Buy some Chore Boy pure copper cleaning
sponges, too. They make great internal packing for
silencers.

A selection of the appropriately sized frieze plugs,
metal washers, rubber stoppers, and the like will be
useful in most of the designs, as you'll soon read. Save

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some of that plastic peanut packing material you throw
out, too. And start buying your soft drinks in the 2-liter
plastic bottles.

Why?

The answer is in Chapter 5, but please read Chapter
4 first. Please!

NOTE:

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Another commercial silencer from the early 1980s is this fine effort by R.E. Choate, a superb machinist and silencer
designer. It is a baffle-and-screen model. The detailed engineering diagram here is of great value to the student of si-
lencerology. (Illustration courtesy of R.E. Choate, via J. David Truby, Silencers in the 1980s) Ln

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Here is a stripped silencer from a kit designed in the 1980s by RFP, Inc. Mounted on an S&W 39, this silencer is a wipe
design using baffles, chambers, and an unusual ported swirl section. (Photo courtesy of J. David Truby, Silencers in the

<N 1 980s)

CHAPTER 4

Your Last Chance To Be Legal

If I bore you with my warnings about what the
federates will do if they catch you with an illegal
silencer, let me ask you if losing $10,000 and several
years of your freedom sounds boring, too? That's why I
want to make this final plea about how to obey all
federal, state, and local laws regarding silencers.

Did I mention that it's against the law to have
silencers? That's why they're 'cal led illegal silencers,
you see. I should add that the majority of federal offi-
cers, most of whom have little or no sense of humor,
view "intent" very seriously. That is, if you have a can
.at they say you intended to use as a silencer, you're
in deep, murky doo-doo. As one federal authority told a
silencer savant in a federal courtroom years ago, "If you
put a toothpaste tube on the end of your .22 and it cuts
down the sound blast even one decibel, that's intent to
make a silencer, and that is illegal."

According to the feds, you cannot assemble,
manufacture, purchase, receive, or possess any silencer
that is not federally registered. To register that silencer,
you have to endure a rather complex bit of bureau-

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This illegal silencer was made simply from a garden tractor muffler and
used with a .22 rifle. It was packed with steel wool. Though it looked
crude / it was quite effective. (Photo courtesy of New Jersey State Police)

cratic and authoritative genuflecting that involves mug
shots, fingerprinting, tax payment, and permission from
a local law-enforcement official. You will have to go
through all of this if you want to be legal.

To help you with this legal brouhaha, I have
reproduced the federal forms you will need to legally
and pleasurably pursue the unsounds of silence. These
include:

Your Last Chance To Be Legal

1 . BATF Form 1. This is the form you file in dupli-
cate with the feds before you actually build a silencer.
It will register your silencer with the federal govern-
ment. Filing this form requires your photograph, finger-
prints, a local law-enforcement sign-off, and payment
of a $200 manufacturing tax.

Although some critics refer to this as a mashed-potato maker, there are
documented accounts of people using the "spud silencer." It is obviously
a one-shot weapon with limited use. It is shown here mounted on a zip
gun used by a street-gang member in the late 1960s. (Photo courtesy of
John A. Minnery)

It is very important that you do not start any
construction on your silencer until this form comes
back approved by the appropriate BATF official. Under
current law, the BATF considers silencer parts to be
controlled items under the National Firearms Act. The
point is, if you start assembling these NFA parts prior to
having that approved Form 1 in your possession, the
feds could claim prima facie evidence of intent to
manufacture an unlicensed silencer.

If that sounds stupid, petty, nasty, silly, and legally
serious, that's because it is. The only non-silly part of it

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1. DEFINITIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY “ BUREAU OF ALCOHOL F TOBACCO AND FIREARM

APPLICATION TO MAKE AND REGISTER A FIREARM

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DETACH THIS SHEET BEFORE COMPLETING FORM h ^ V* * ;

INSTRUCTIONS

6. Unless the malting oft hef ire arm it tax exempt see instruction
4belowU $200 making tax must be paid (Title 26 U S C Chaplet 53

a FIREARM The term "firearm" means: (1) a shotgun having a
barrel or barrels of less than 1 8 inches tn length; (2) a weapon made
from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of
less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 1 8 inches in
length; (31 a rifle having a barrel or barrels of lets than 1 6 inches in
length: |4) a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has
an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less
then 16 inches in length; (5) any other weapon, as defined inb, below,
(61 a machine gun; (7} a muffler or a silencer for any firearm whether
or not such firearm is included within this definition, and (8) a destruc-
tive device. The term "firearm" shall not include an antique firearm or
any device (other than a machine gun or destructive device! which,
although designed as a weapon, the Director, Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, or authorized delegate finds by reason of the
date of its manufacture, value, design, and other characteristics is
primarily a collector's item and is not likely to be used as a weapon

b. ANY OTHER WEAPON. The term "any other weapon" means
any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from
which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a
pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or
redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination
shotgun and rifle barrels 1 2 inches or more, less then 16 inches in
length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either
barrel without manual reloading, end shell include any such weapon
which may be readily restored to fire. Such term shall not include a
pistol or a revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons
designed, made, or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not
capable of firing fixed ammunition

c. PERSON The term "person" means any individual, company,
corporation, association, firm, partnership, joint slock company, trust
or society

2. PREPARATION OF APPLICATION TO MAKE AND
REGISTER A FIREARM, AND PAYMENT OF TAX.

WHERE REQUIRED.

a As provided in §5822 of the National Firearms Act, every
person [other than a licensed manufacturer who has also paid the
required special (occupational) tax to manufacture NFA weapons)
seeking to make a firearm must complete, in duplicate, a separate
application on this form for each firearm The applicant maker must
furnish all the information called for on this application form.

b The applicant must present this form to the lew enforcement
agency having jurisdiction in his area of residence (Chief of Police,
Sheriff, etc I (or completion of the Law Enforcement Certification on
the back of the form. If the applicant is other than an individual, the
trade name should be entered as "name of maker"

c If the applicant is an individual (including a licensed collector!,
an unmounted photograph (2" x 2" token within the past year) must
be affixed in the indicated space on both copies of the form, and
completed FBI Form FD-268, Fingerprint Card, must be submitted in
duplicate The prints should be taken by someone qualified to do so
and must be clear, unsmudged and classifiable. In addition, the
person taking the fingerprints mutt enter the identification data
regarding the individual maker and must complete the Fingerprint
Cards by signing as the person taking the fingerprints.

d AM required signatures mutt be entered in ink. It is preferred
that the form be prepared by use of a typewriter, using cerbon paper
to make an exact duplicate Pen end ink may be used, but under no
circumstances wifi a form filled in by use of a lead pencil be accepted.
The signature on both copies must be an original. Photocopies, other
tecsimrte*. or carbon copy signatures are not acceptable AH changes
made on the form must be initialed and dated by the applicant.

ATF FORM 1 (7666.11 (4^2)

§5B2l(a»

f. Item 4a. of the form should clearly indicate if the parts of a
receiver which had been destroyed in accordance with Department of
Defense (DOD) demilitarization standards will be used to "make" the
receiver of the firearm. The name of the manufacturer of the original
-receiver should be shown, as well as any serial number appearing on
such receiver. Please note tnai a machmegun receiver which has not
bean destroyed according to current DOD demilitarization standards
may be classified as a National Firearms Act (NFA) weapon m and of
itself It rs unlawful to possess an NFA firearm which is not registered
to the possessor and the weapon is subject to the seizure and fortes
ture provisions of the law

g- 1i is pjggestyd that the Serial Number (item 4g on the face of
the forrftfcontam at least four digits. precededby the maker's initials

h. If any questions arise concerning the preparation of the form,
contact the NFA Branch, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
Washington. DC 2Q226 or the nearest ATF office

3, DISPOSITION OF APPLICATION TO MAKE AND REGISTER

A FIREARM.

The applicant will forward both copies of the form to the NFA
Branch, Bureau ol Alcohol, Tobacco ond Firearms, Washington, DC
20226. with a $200 check or money order (where required) made
payable to the Department of the Treasury. If approved, the original of
the approved form will be returned to the applicant and ATF will retatn
ihe duplicate. Approval by ATF wilt effect registration of the firearm to
the applicant The applicant shall not, under any circumstances,
make the firearm unlit the approved form, with the "National Fire'
arms Act" stamp attached, is received The form must be retained by
the applicant and be available at all times for inspection by Govern-
ment officers until such time as the firearm may later be transferred
after approval by this office If the application is disapproved, the
original and any accompanying check or money order will be returned
to the applicant with the reason for disapproval

4. EXEMPTIONS FROM PAYMENT OF TAX.

a Under the provisions of §§6652 and 5053. National Firearms
Act, firearms, as defined in 1 a and 1 b., may be made by any person
without payment of the making tax when made by, or on behalf of:
(1 ) the United States, or any department, independent establishment,
or agency thereof; or |2) any State or possession of the United States,
or any political subdivision thereof, or any official police organization
of such a government entity engaged in criminal investigations. The
maker must apply on this form and obtain ihe approval of the Director
before making ihe firearm Documentation that the firearm is being
made for a government entity must accompany ihe application A
U S Government Contract number or a State or local government
purchase order would be acceptable documentation Upon receipt of
the approved ATF Form 1 , and after Ihe firearm has been made, the
maker must apply on ATF Form b for lh* tax exempt transfer of the
firearm to the government entity for whom it was made

b A manufacturer who has paid special (occupational) tax to
manufacture firearms may make the kind of firearm that he is quali-
fied to manufacture without payment of the making tax and he is not
required to file this application form However, the qualified manufac-
turer must report and register each firearm mode by filing ATF Form 2.
Nonce of Firearms Manufactured or Imported, with the Director,
immediately after manufacturing the firearm.

(Contmuot on revarJAf

This is the BATF Form 1, which is used to apply for permission to build
and register a silencer. Filed in duplicate, it must be accompanied by two
fingerprint cards and a $200 check. You must get a Form 1 approved,
signed, and returned before you begin work on your silencer. (Courtesy
of BATF)

Your Last Chance To Be Legal

INSTRUCTIONS (Continued)

5. PERSONS PROHIBITED FROM MAKING A FIREARM.

Section 5822 of the National Firearms Act requires that the ap-
plication to make a firearm be denied if the making or possession
of the firearm would place the person making the firearm in viola-
tion of law. The term "law" In this statute includes Federal laws
as well as State statutes and local ordinances applicable to the
locality where the transferee resides. Under Title VII of Public Law
90-351, as amended, (18 U.S.C, Appendix, 1201-1203), the posses-
sion "in commerce or affecting commerce" of a firearm, including
an unserviceable firearm which has a frame or receiver is unlawful
when possessed by any person who;

(1) has been convicted by a court of the United States or of a
State or any political subdivision thereof of a felony, or

(2) has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dis-
honorable conditions, or

(3) has been adjudged by a court of the United Slates or of a
State or any political subdivision thereof of being mentally incom-
petent, or

(4) having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced
his citizenship, or

(5) being an alien is illegally or unlawfully in the United States.

6. PENALTIES.

Any person who violates or fails to comply with any of the re-
quirements of the National Firearms Act shall, upon conviction,
be fined not more than $10,000 or be Imprisoned for not more than
10 years, or both, in the discretion of the court. Moreover, any
firearm involved in any violation of the provisions of the National
Firearms Acf or any regulations issued thereunder shall be sub-
ject lo seizure and forfeiture. It is unlawful for any person to make
or cause the making of a false entry on any application or record
required by the National Firearms Act, knowing such entry to be
false.

7. LATER TRANSFER OF THE FIREARM.

If the firearm is to be transferred later by the applicant, an ap-
plication form covering the proposed transfer must be filed with
the Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

PRIVACY ACT INFORMATION

1. AUTHORITY. Solicitation of this information is made pursuant to the National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. §5821 and 5622). Disclosure of this
information by the applicant is mandatory for any person (other than a manufacturer qualified under the National Firearms Act) making a
firearm as defined in the National Firearms Act.

2. PURPOSE. To verify payment of the lax imposed by 26 U.S.C. §5821; to determine that the making would not be in violation of law and to
effect registration of the firearm.

3. ROUTINE USES. The information will be used by ATF to make the determinations set forth in paragraph 2. In addition, to effect registration
of the firearm, Information as to the Identification of the firearm, date of registration, and the identification and address of person entitled
to possess the firearm will be entered Into the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. No information obtained from an ap-
plication, registration, or records required to be submitted by a natural person in order to comply with any provision of the National
Firearms Act or regulations issued thereunder, shall, except in connection with prosecution or other action for furnishing false Informa-
tion, be used, directly or indirectly, as evidence against that person in any criminal proceeding with respect to a violation of law occurring
prior to or concurrently with the tiling of the application. The Information from this application may only be disclosed to Federal authorities
for purpose of prosecution for violation of the National Firearms Act.

EFFECTS OF NOT SUPPLYING INFORMATION REQUESTED. Failure to supply complete information will delay processing and may cause
denial of the application.

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT NOTICE

This form is in accordance with the clearance requirements of Section 3507, PL 96-511, 12/11/80. The information you provide is used to
establish that a transferee's receipt and possession of the firearm would be in conformance with Federal. Slate, and local law. The data Is
used as proof of lawful registration of a firearm to the manufacturer. The furnishing of this information is mandatory (26 USC 5822).

ATF FORM 1 (75*0.1) (4 82)

BATF Form 1 , page 2 of 4

32 THE HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK

Form Appro yd : OMB No. 1512-0024 (9/)i/H j)

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY - BUREAU Of ALCOHOL. TOBACCO AND FIREARMS

APPLICATION TO MAKE AND REGISTER A FIREARM

/Submit in dupilcalc. See Inttruclioni attached.)

ct Branch, Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco and Firearms. Washington, DC 20226

Tha undersigned hereby makes application, at required bv Sections SB 2! and 5822 of the National
■•term* Act. Title 28 U.8.C.. Chapter 53. to make and register tha firearm detcribed below.

1 APPLICATION IS MADE BY: ,

□ individual

□ BUSINESS FIRM □GOVERNMENT ENTITY

TRADE NAME (Iftny)

3a. APPLICANT’S NAME AND MAI LING ADDRESS (Type or print below tad between MM dot*)

1 TYPE OP APPLICATION (Clink one)
tl a. TAX PAID. Submit with vour application
a check Or money order for $200 made pay
able to the Department of the Treasury. Upon
approval of the application, thia office will

acquire, affix, and cancel the required
'"National F iraarmt Act" ttamp for you.

|U b. TAX EXEMPT.becauta firearm it being
made on behtff of tha United States, or any
department, independent eitablithment. or
agency thereof.

|D c. TAX EXEMPT because firearm is being
made by or on behalf of any State or posses-
sion of the United Statet. or arty political
subdivision thereof, or any official police
organization ol such a government entity

c COUNTY :

d. TELEPHONE ARlcA CODE AND NUMBER”

b. IF F.O. BOX ISSHOWN ABOVE. STREET ADORESS MUST BE GIVEN HERE

|4. DESCRIPTION OF FIREARM IComplate items t through i)

. NAME AND LOCATION OF ORIGINAL MANUFAC- Jr. TYPE OF FIREARM TO BE c. CALIBER.
TURER OF FIREARM (RECEIVER) (If prototype, MADE iShortbarreltd riflr. GAUGE OR

furnish plum and specifications) /See Instruction 2f.i machine pun. deafractfi* SIZE /Specif ^

e. OF BARREL:

f. OVERALL:

g. SERIAL NUMBER ISer Instruction 3p.)

h. ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTION (include tU numbers and other Umtlfylnp

B. APPLICANT’S FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENS"- (If any)

6. SPECIAL l OCCUPATIONAL I TAX STATUS

(Glee complete /5-digit number)

a. atf *»mf cation number

6 digits

2 digits

5 digits

7. EMPLOYER'S IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (If appHeeUe)

IMPORTANT: GIVE FULL OETAILS ON SEPARATE SHEET FOR ALL ’’YES'' ANSWERS IN ITEMS 8 AND 9

8. IS APPLICANT

YES

9, HAS APPLICANT

YES

a. Charged by Information or under indictment in any court
for a crime punishable by Imprisonment ' x a term exceeding
one year?

a. Been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a farm exceeding ana year?

b. A fugitive from justice?

b. Been discharged from the armed forces under
dishonorable conditions?

c. An alien who is illegally or unlaw 'idly In ttw United States?

c. Been adjudicated as a manta* dafaellva or bean
committed to any mental institution?

d. Under 21 years of ege?

a. An unlawful user of or addicted to marihuana or any
depressant, stimulant or narcotic drug?

d. Renounced his or her cltirenship. having been a citizen
of the United States?

f A citizen of the United States

UNDER PENALTIES OF PERJURY. 1 DECLARE that 1 have examined 1

this application, including accompanying documents, and to the bast of my knowledge and belief it it true, accurate and com plate, and tha making am
possession of tha firearm described above would not constitute a violation of Chapter 44, Title 18. U.S.C., Chester 53. Title 26. U.S.C., Title VII of tt
Omnibus Crime Control and Safa Streets Act, at amended, or any provisions of Slate or local law.

10 SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT

TH« SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE USE OF THE BUREA'J OF ALCOHOL. TOBACCO AND FIREARMS

□ APPROVED (With the following conditions. iftny)

□ DISAPPROVED (for Ihe following remit ms l

AUTHORIZED ATF OFFltlAL

ATF FORM 1 (7580.11 ( 4-SZ T

BATF Form 1 , page 3 of 4,

Your Last Chance To Be Legal

BATF Form 1 , page 4 of 4,

THE HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK

is when they fine you or throw your ass in jail. As I've
written and said several hundred times, most federales
have no sense of humor and take themselves far too
seriously.

2. BATF Form 4. You use this form when you buy a
legally registered silencer from a dealer or manufac-
turer. They usually will provide you with this form.
Filing it transfers registration and ownership of the
silencer from the previous owner to you. You must
include your photograph, fingerprints, a local law-
enforcement signature, and payment of a $200 transfer
tax.

3. FBI Form FD-258. This is the universal finger-
print card that your local or state police personnel will
use to record your fingerprints for the BATF files in
Washington. Supposedly, each applicant's prints are
checked, but I know a retired FBI employee who told
me that it is rarely done. "Not nearly enough time or
people or, frankly, concern" is how he put it to me.

Those are the forms. Now, here is the proper drill
that you should use if you want to be all tickety-boo
legal and have that homemade silencer registered with
the BATF.

Before building the silencer, fill out Form 1 after
you get your picture and fingerprints. Get the endorse-
ment signature of your favorite local law-enforcement
official. The feds like chiefs of police, county sheriffs,
chief prosecutors, or their designated minions to sign
for this. Obviously, ask someone you know and who
knows you; it's easier that way.

If they ask you what in hell you want a silencer for,
remember that they are not there to give you permis-
sion to own the silencer. Some local official's personal
prejudices about gun and silencer control is not neces-

Your Last Chance To Be Legal

fom Annwd OMB No TSt20027 iH>)i<W

This is the BATF Form 4, which covers transfer of an existing silencer
between two parties. It must be completed in duplicate and submitted to
the BATF along with two fingerprint cards and a $200 check. (Courtesy
of BATF)

36 THE HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK

INSTRUCTIONS (Continued!

6. RATE OF TAX ON THE TRANSFER OF A FIREARM. The tax on
the transfer of a firearm a $200, except that the transfer tax is 95 on
is "any other weapon" as defined in instruction 1b.

7. PERSONS PROHIBITED FROM RECEIVING FIREARMS. Under
18 U.S.C., Chapter 44 and Title VII of Public Law 90-361, a* amended,
08U.S.C., Appended, the following parsons are prohibited from receiving
a firearm, including an unserviceable firearm which ha* a frame or receiver:
(1) fugitives from justice (any crime); (2) persons under indictment for.
or who have been convicted of, a crime punishable by imprisonment,
for a term exceeding 1 year; (3) narcotic addicts or unlawful drug users;
(41 persons adjudicated mental defectives or mentally incompetent, or
who have been committed to any mental institution; 16) veterans dis-
charged under dishonorable conditions; (6) persons who have renounced
their United States dtiranehip; (7) sheets idegsty or unlawfully in the United
States; and (81 where the transferor is a firearms licensee, persons under
21 years of age in the case of any firearm other than a shotgun or a rifle
and under 18 years of age in the case of a shotgun or a rifle. In addition,
section 6612 of the National Firearms Act requires that an application
to transfer a firearm be denied if the transfer, receipt or possession of
the fireerm would place the transferee in violation of law. The term "law”
in this statute includes Federal lews as well as State statutes and local
ordinances applicable to the locality where the transferee resides.

B. INQUIRIES ABOUT STATUS OF A TRANSFER APPLICATION.

The transfer application form will be reviewed and returned to the
transferor promptly if additional information or corrections are required.
However, because of the necessity for an FBI record check on an indi-
vidual transferee's fingerprints, approximately 60 days must be allowed
for processing such sppfeatxme Under the provisions of Section 61031 a],
Title 26, United States Code, disclosure of any •'return" or "return
information" is generally prohibited to anyone except the person fihng
the return. Therefore, information about the status of a transfer

application may be given only to the transferor . Such information can-
not be divulged to the transferee.

9. PENALTIES. Any person who violates or fails to comply with any
of the requirements of the National Firearms Act shall, upon conviction,
be fined not more than *10,000 or be imprisoned for not more then 10
years, or both, m the discretion of the court. Moreover, any firearm
involved in any violation of the provisions of the National Firearms Act
or any regulations issued thereunder shall be subject to seizure and
forfeiture. It « unlawful for any person to make or cause ths miking of
a false entry on any application or record required by the National Firearms
Act knowing such entry to be false.

NOTE: All provisions of Tide I of the Gun Control Act must stso be com-
plied with, inducting the recordkeeping requirements for Weenies end
retention of ATF Form 4473 (5300.91 by licensees for dispositions to
nonlicensees.

SPECIAL NOTE; A direct interstate transfer will be approved only to
a licensee who is also s special (occupational) taxpayer qualified to deal
in the particular type NFA firearm; or a government entity; or a lawful
heir; or, m the case of a firearm which has been designated as a "curio
or relic," to a licensed collector.

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT NOTICE

This information request is in accordance with the Paperwork Reduc-
tion Act of 1980. The information you provide is used in applying to
transfer serviceable firearms tax paid to persons other than special tax
payers qualified to deal in NFA firearms or government entities. Data is
used to identify transferor, transferee, and firearm, and to ensure legal-
ity for transfer under Federal. State and local laws. The furnishing of
this information is mandatory. (26 U.S.C. 5B12)

The following information is provided pursuant to Section 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. f562(al(3)l:

1. AUTHORITY. Solicitation of this information is made pursuant to the National Firearms Act (26 U S.C . |G812). Disclosure
of this information by the applicant is mandatory for transfer of an NFA firearm, unless the transfer is otherwise exempt from tax.

2. PURPOSE. To insure payment of the tax imposed by 26 U.S.C. $5811; to insure that the transfer would not be in violation
of law; and to effect registration of the firearm.

3. ROUTINE USES. The information *
affect registration of the fi

be used by ATF to make the determinations sat forth in paragraph 2. In addition, to
tation as to the identification of the firearm, date of registration, and the identification
the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.

and address of person entitled to possess the firearm wfll be entered
No information obtained from an application, registration, or records required to be submitted by a natural person in order
to comply with any provision of the National Firearm* Act or regulations issued thereunder, shall, except in connect**, with
prosecution or other action for furnishing false information, be used, directly or indirectly, as evidence against that person
in any criminal proceeding with respect to a violation of law occurring prior to or concurrently with the filing of the application.
The information from this application may only be disclosed to Federal authorities for purposes of prosecution for violation
of the National Firearms Act.

4. EFFECTS OF NOT SUPPLYING INFORMATION REQUESTED Failure to supply
and may cause denial of the application.

information will delay processing

ATF Form 4 I832B.4) U

BATF Form 4, page 2 of 4

Your Last Chance To Be Legal

form Approved: OMB No. (ia/ll/W

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY - BUREAU OF ALCOHOL. TOBACCO AND FIREARMS

APPLICATION FOR TAX PAID TRANSFER AND REGISTRATION OF FIREARM

2a. TRANSFEREE'S NAME AND ADDRESS (If transferee « a Special (Occupational) Taxpayer who
it acquiring firearm for per*ona(,u*e, rather than 8* part of hi* bu*«ne** inventory, ahow pereonat
name below and check here: □)

2b. TRADE NAME (See tnutruction 2a)

Sc. IF APPLICABLE DECEDENTS NAME. ADORESS, ANO DATE OF DEATH

SEE INSTRUCTIONS ATTACHED.

TO BE SUBMITTED IN DUPLICATE
TO: National Firearm* Act Branch

Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco and
fir earm *

P.0. Box 73201
Chicago. IL 60873-7201

1. TYPE OF TRANSFER I Chuck otmi
IS— inttruchorm t and 6J

□ « □ «°°

Submit with your application • check or
money order for the appropriate amount mad*
payable to the Department of the Treasury.
Upon approval of thia application, the office
wM acquire, affix and cancel the required
"National Firearm* Act" atamp for you. (See
Inttnjctlon 6)

3b. NUMBER, STREET, CITY. STATE
ANO ZIP CODE IF DIFFERENT
FROM ITEM 3*.

The above-named and undareigned trarrforor hereby make* application a* rotpered by Section 6812 of th* National Firearm* Act to transfer m
the firearm described below to the transferee.

4. DESCRIPTION OF FIREARM /Completa item* a throe

*h W

d MODEL

a. NAME AND ADDRESS OF MANUFACTURER
AND/OR IMPORTER OF FIREARM

b. TYPE OF FIREARM ( Short -
barrabd nfla. machine gun,
daaouctrw device, any other
weapon, etc.)

e. CALIBER.
GAUGE OR
SIZE ISf>ac#y)

LENGTH a. OF BARREL:

fktehaa) f. OVERALL:

g. SERIAL NUMBER

ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTION OR DATA APPEARING ON FIREARM (Attach addition* ahaat it

6. TRANSFEREE S FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSE Many!

«. TRANSFEREE'S SPECIAL (OCCUPATIONAL! TAX STATU!

| (Give complete 15-digit number)

0. ATF IDENTIFICATION NUMBER

b. CLASS

| First e digit* ! 2 digit* |

2 digit* |

6<**a

i i i

7. TRANSFEROR'S FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSE (li any)

B. TRANSFEROR'S SPECIAL (OCCUPATIONAL) TAX STATUS !

(Give eompl*** IS-dg/t numbar)

a. ATF IDENTIFICATION NUMBER

b. CLASS

1 Feet 6 digit* j 2 digit* j

2dm*. ]

UNDER PENALTIES OF PERJURY. I DECLARE that I have examined thia application, and to th* beat of m y knowledg e and b*Maf_ It ia true, c orrect and
comdat*. and that th* transfer of the daacrlbad firearm to th* b a ndar** and receipt and p a aaaadon of » hytha trerreferaeare rwt prowy ^ wy ptoMar^
of Chapter 44, Title 18, United State* Code; Chapter S3. Title 28, United State* Coda; or TM* VII of th* Omnibu* Crime Control end Safe Street* Act,
pimfrlnn* o( stale or local Law.

9. SIGNATURE OF TRANSFEROR <Or authoraad ofHd*l

THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE USE OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS

BY AUTHORITY OF THE DIRECTOR. THIS APPLICATION HAS

REGISTRATION OF THE FIREARM DESCRIBED HEREIN AND THE INTERSTATE MOVEMENT OF THAT FIREARM.
WHEN APPLICABLE, TO THE TRANSFEREE ARE:

STAMP NUMBER

| | APPROVED (With tha following condhkma, H any I

| 1 DISAPPROVED (For th* foMamrtg ra

SIGNATURE OF DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS

ATF Form 4 (030.41 114*1

BATF Form 4, page 3 of 4,

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CERTIFICATIONS

[i. PHOTOGRAPH

H the transferor of a deetructive device. mechinegun, short-barreled shotgun or short-barreled
rifle is a Fedsrel firearms Mc an aa i . and the transferee a anyone other than a Bcensee qualified to deal
in the firearm to be transferred, the tranaferee must sign the Applicant Certification (item 2 below I
in the presence of the law enforcement officer signing item 3 below. The Law Enforcement Certifica-
tion (item 3 below) must be completed tor the transfer of any r e giatered firearm to an individual other
than a Hcanaee qualified to deal in the firearm to be transferred In addition, the individual transferee
must iff I* a recent photograph (taken within the peat year) in item 1 and aubmit, in duplicate (to the
transferor) two completed copies of FBI Form FD-2SB. Fingerprint Card. (See Important note beterer.)

AFFIX

RECENT PHOTOGRAPH HERE
(Approximately 2" * 2")

2. APPLICANT CERTIFICATION

(Mama of

weapon daaertiid on thia application for the foflowing

and my possession of the device or weapon would be consistent with public safety (W U.S.C. 9221b) (41 end 27 CFR 178.981.

UNDER PENALTIES OF PERJURY, 1 declare that I have examined this application, and to the best of my knowledge end beiet It « true, correct and corn-
plate. and that receipt and possession of the firearm described on this form will not place me in violation of the provisions of Chapter 44, Title 18, U.S.C . ;
Chapter S3, Tide 28, U.S.C.; or Tide VII of the Onvdbus Crime Control and SafS Streets Act, as amended, or any provision* of State or local law.

(Signature of T ias fe tea or official authorized to sign for firm) Data

a. LAW ENFORCEMENT CERTIFICATION (See IMPORTANT note betowl

I certify that I am the chief law e nforcement officer of the organization named below having jurisdiction in the are*

of residence of . I hava no Information indicating that the transferee will use the fire-

INeme of Transferee!

arm or device described on this appficadon for other than lawful purposes. I have no information that the receipt and/or posse ssi on of the firearm described
in item 4 of this form would piece the tr a na f eree in violation of State or local lew.

(Signature and Tide of Chief Lew Enfo rcement Officer - See IMPORTANT note below)

(Or ga niza ti on and Street Addreeal

IMPORTANT : The chief lew e nforcement officer is considered to be the Chief of Police for the transferee's city or town of residence, the Sheriff for

the transferee's county of residence; the Head of the Stats Police for the transferee's Stats of residence; a State or local district attorney or prosecutor
having jurisdiction in the transferee's area of reside rice; or another person whose certification is acceptable to the Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms. If someone has specific dlls ga ted authority to sign on behalf of the Chief of Police, Sheriff, etc., this fact must be noted by printing the
Chief's, Sheriffs, Or other authorized official's name and trite, fotawed by the word "by" end the fu8 signature and trite of the delegated person.

BATF Form 4, page 4 of 4.

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sarily the law. You are going through a legal process
here, not getting permission. What the local officer is
signing and attesting to is that you are not of bad char-
acter and that he has no information that would lead
him to believe you would use the silencer illegally. He
is also attesting that your ownership of the silencer
doesn't violate any local laws.

This official does not incur any legal liability by
signing this form for you. On the other hand, no law
requires him to sign it, either. So as I say, make friends
with someone in the upper echelon of your town or
county police department. Remember, this official must
have law-enforcement jurisdiction within your area of
legal residence.

Next, write a check for $200 to the Department of
Treasury to pay your tax. Fill out rest of the form and
sign it. Make at least one photocopy of the completed
paperwork, then mail the two originals to the address
indicated on the form.

If you're buying someone else's already registered
silencer, you go through the exact same procedure
except you use a BATF Form 4. Everything else is the
same. In either case, you will probably hear from BATF
in two or three months.

Silencer fans, that's all you need to do to have your
very own legally registered silencer.

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To make or transfer a silencer, you must file two completed and signed
copies of this FBI Form 258, the universal fingerprint card, with your
completed application. (Courtesy of FBI)

CHAPTER 5

Simple Designs For Simple Minds

Ed Owen, one of the finest technical minds in the
firearms field, is a major management honcho for the
National Firearms Branch of BATF. Awed disciples
regard him as the czar of silencers, and he is always
happy to share his vast technical and legal knowledge
with students in the field of firearms and sound sup-
pression. In his many years of experience, Ed has seen,
examined, and used thousands of silencers, both legal
and otherwise. He once told another expert in the field
that the most effective and efficient types of homemade
silencers conform to five basic design features.

To keep your work simple, and to help you get a
good, working silencer for your own gun easily and
quickly, I'm going to share those five expert design tips
for your own study and use. They are:

1. Mounting should utilize a threaded connection,
which gives a gas-tight seal. Next best is a compression
seal, followed by mechanical. If you use the latter, use
electrical tape, too.

2. Internal fittings of a good silencer should be
fixed rigidly in place to prevent shifting, which will

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To show how simple an effective firearm silencer design can be, consider this sketch of a model used by a professionaj

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sionally made model, you can build one almost like it. (Illustration courtesy of Em.I.o Santana)

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mess up alignment. That could be dangerous for you.

3. Your silencer needs large, definite expansion
chambers to capture the hot gases generated from the
cartridge explosion.

4. Keep the muzzle exit hole as close as possible to
the caliber of the firearm. This is vital so that gas (and
thus noise) doesn't escape with the bullet.

5. The best homemade designs employ some type
of perforated plastic, rubber, cork, or leather discs
inside the silencer along the path of the bullet. These
discs greatly reduce the gas flow following the bullet,
thus knocking down the sound even more.

As I noted earlier, my first preconstruction practical
advice is to forget the thimble-sized silencers you see
on movie and TV guns. Real silencers have to be large
enough to contain 80 to 90 percent of the noise-
causing gas that escapes when a gun is fired. Even a
closed-bolt .22 rifle needs a silencer of at least 5 or 6
inches in length and about an inch around to do the
job. If you want to build a silencer for your .30-06,
you re talking about a can 18 inches or so long and
about 3 inches around. The weight of the unit will be
reflective of its size, of course.

The following are some very simple silencers you
can create in just minutes from common materials you
would normally toss in the trash. Instead, toss 'em on
the end of your gun and go pouut, pouut, pouut, rather
than BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!

POP GOES THE SODA GUN

Pop bottle silencers have been around for years. I
first saw one in 1978 and tested another one that same
day. They work pretty well for a half dozen shots or so.

I once tried one on a submachine gun and got out five

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fairly quiet rounds before the bottom blew out of the
bottle.

One of the earliest improvised silencer designs was the 2-liter plastic
bottle, usually filled with stuffers or liquid. BATF regulations require you
to register this unit like any other silencer, of course. (Illustrations
courtesy of William Seymour)

All you need is a plastic 2-liter soda pop bottle,
some electrical tape, and a hose clamp. Use the tape to
bulk up the barrel of the firearm so the bottle goes over
it snugly— just wrap the barrel with the tape and keep
measuring the bottle over the wrap until you get a good
fit. Use the clamp to hold it in place. Aim and fire.

For variation, you can pour a bit of water into the
bottle before you put it on your firearm. This will

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further mute the sound. Keep the waterline below the
bore line, since you don't want to shoot through the
water or have it flow back into the weapon, flooding
the barrel.

If you don't like the wet stuff, try filling the bottle
with those plastic packing peanuts. But be warned: The
heat caused by the muzzle blast will probably melt the
plastic, which makes a real mess. This is another good
reason to have your gun barrel well-taped. You can
also stuff fire-retardant rags into the bottle.

CAN YOU TOP THIS?

This design is the work of Cleveland Amoral and
Billy Huze. They introduced it to the members of the
Myopic and Petrified Skeet and Old Boys Club, a major

You can easily make a firearm silencer simply by mounting any used
beer or pop can onto your pistol. These plans show how to make a
simple mount for the replaceable silencer. BATF requires you to register
the mount, of course. (Illustrations courtesy of John A. Minnery)

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NRA subculture located in Sellout, Maryland.

This silencer is easy to make, and it's a great way to
recycle all of those empty beer and soda cans that
clutter your trash. The only mechanical work required
is to construct an attachment to mount to your firearm's
muzzle. I suggest a simple muzzle extension made
from aluminum or PVC pipe attached over the muzzle
and secured with electrician's tape. If you want a more
permanent mounting, use set screws or a compression
fitting. In either case, first add a light covering of electri-
cian's tape to the barrel so you don't mar the finish.

You can also use a bracket mount over the end of
the muzzle extension, or, for that matter, the muzzle
itself. It must be large enough to fit completely over the
empty can, which will act as the body of your silencer.
Line the inside rim with sponge rubber. You can use a
small amount of epoxy or a silicone sealant to secure
the rubber to the back end of the bracket.

The next step is to mount the one-shot disposable
silencer to the muzzle extension/mount by sliding the
tab end over the end of the pipe. In the case of the
bracket, slide the entire tab end of the can flush against
the back of the bracket (through which the muzzle or
muzzle extension is sticking). Position the tab opening
with the muzzle opening.

You're done. The fired round exits through the
sealed end of the can. Remove the can, stick on an-
other one, and you're ready for a second shot.

My old friend and Canadian connection to the
world of esoteric weaponry, John Minnery, suggests
taping two cans in tandem to increase the silencer's
quieting powers. Both the original and John's sugges-
tion work well.

I saw both designs demonstrated at the annual

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Goldsmith/Hughes Silencerology Institute field trials in
1989. Despite their material beginnings and simple
constructions, they performed very well.

A MUFFLED ATTEMPT

With a bit of drilling you can turn an ordinary
replacement muffler for your small lawn mower into a
very good silencer. After all, what is a silencer but a
muffler? Buy the muffler at a busy farm and garden
shop.

Because many of these mufflers are designed only
to trap gases and not to have a projectile passing
through them, they often do not have straight-through
openings. Using the proper size bit to match the caliber
of the pistol or rifle you will use with this silencer, drill
a straight hole the entire length of the muffler.

To mount this unit, you may need to remove the
front sight from your weapon, or you can choose a gun
with the sight set back far enough for the muffler to
mount in front of it.

Wrap the end of the barrel with electrician's tape to
create a mounting bushing for the muffler. Place the
muffler neck over the taped barrel and slip a hose
clamp on the assembly. Don't tighten it yet.

Take a dowel the same size as the caliber of the
weapon, or a cleaning rod of the same caliber, and slip
it down the muffler into the firearm barrel to align the
hole in the muffler with the bore of the gun. When you
have it aligned properly, tighten the hose clamp and
remove the dowel rod. You now have a silenced
firearm.

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A firearm silencer is really a muffler, just like the one on your car, truck, or tractor. Thus, a small muffler from a lawn
mower makes a fine improvised silencer for your gun. (Illustration courtesy of Chuck E. Reese)

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TENNIS ANYONE?

Tennis balls make great insert materials for a si-
lencer. One of the first designs I saw came from John
Minnery, the Canadian author and maven of the arcane
arsenal from the sub-rosa world. His design was a
simple yet effective affair that you can easily replicate
at your kitchen table.

You need a piece of PVC pipe (3-inch inside diam-
eter, about 12 to 14 inches long), three or four tennis
balls, duct and electrician's tape, and the ubiquitous
hose clamp.

Wrap the tape around the gun barrel as a bushing to
mount the silencer. The barrel should fit snugly inside
the pipe. Now cut a hole into one of the tennis balls so
it can be slipped over the end of the barrel with a very
tight fit.

Put the PVC pipe over the ball and onto the tape
bushing on the barrel. Place the hose clamp on the unit
to hold it in place. Tighten it. Holding the gun so that
the end of the PVC pipe is pointing upward, place the
other tennis balls on top of the first one, one after the
other. Cross the open end of the PVC pipe with heavy
duct tape in an X pattern, but do not completely cover
the opening.

You don't have to cut holes or slits in the balls or
the tape, contrary to what others have written. Your first
shot out of the gun will accomplish that.

In a design variation suggested by Carla Rowan, a
retired trickshot artist turned suburban housewife, only
one tennis ball is used, augmented by bronze or alumi-
num screening. Here is Ms. Carla's design.

She says you'll need a piece of PVC pipe the same
size as the one used for the Minnery design, an end cap
for it, and a small can of PVC cement. You also need

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This low-cost, simple design is also known as a three-bailer— a tad British, if you will. The gunfire gases swirl inside the
^ tennis balls, cutting down the explosive noise considerably. The rubber in the balls acts as a gas seal as well. (Illustration
•o courtesy of John A. Minnery, Firearm Silencers If)

SPONGE WAD SEAL

This is a variant of the tennis ball silencer in which a square tube is used. Called a "tubular baffle-vortex suppression
concept by its designer, it is somewhat easier to build at home than many conventional silencer designs. (Illustration
courtesy of John A. Minnery)

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one tennis ball, a strip of aluminum or bronze screen-
ing, a 10-inch length of 1 /2-inch wooden dowel, elec-
trician's tape, and a hose clamp.

Use the tape to create the bushing on the barrel.
Next, cut a small, tight hole in the tennis ball and force
it onto the barrel.

Carefully drill a 1 /2-inch hole in the center of the
end cap. Use PVC cement to glue the end cap on one
end of the pipe.

Tightly roll a 5-inch by 50-inch strip of screening
around the wooden dowel. Slide the dowel and screen
into the PVC pipe and remove the dowel. Put the hose
clamp over the open end of the pipe.

Finally, fit this assembly over the tennis ball and
slide it back until the open end of the PVC pipe is even
with the back end of the tape bushing. Tighten the hose
clamp. Be certain that the unit is aligned by visually
checking through the breech with a borelight, or use
the cleaning rod/dowel alignment method.

THE DOC SARVIS SILENCER

There's more to cardboard than cartons and more to
screens than windows and doors. That's why our
in-house shaman, good old Doc Sarvis, came up with
this simple silencer made of PVC pipe, corrugated
cardboard, and screening.

To construct this one you'll need about a foot of
PVC pipe (1 1/2-inch inside diameter), a piece of
aluminum or bronze screening (about 5 inches by 40
inches), a couple of hose clamps, electrician s tape,
some cardboard backing sheets or a small carton, a
3/8-inch by 10-inch piece of wooden dowel, and some
epoxy glue.

Doc's first step is to make two electrical-tape

END CAP

Slitting a tennis ball, putting it on a gun barrel, then covering it all with
silencer . . . and so easy to make. (Illustration courtesy of Ali Ahmand)

screening and pipe makes a tremendously effective

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bushings for the barrel of the soon-to-be-silenced
weapon. He says to start one at the muzzle and the
second about an inch and a half back from that. Make
these bushings big enough so that the barrel will just
barely slide into the PVC pipe.

Then Doc says to cut out twenty-five 1 1 /2-inch
cardboard washers from the heavy cardboard, drill or
punch a 1 /4-inch hole in the center of each, and glue
five of them into one end of the PVC pipe. Set the other
twenty aside for a moment.

Cut a piece of screening to 1 1/2 inches by 36
inches and wrap it tightly around the wooden dowel.
Insert the dowel into the PVC pipe and slide the roll of
screening in until it comes to rest against the five
cardboard washers. Remove the dowel.

Next, insert the remaining twenty washers into the
PVC pipe up to the rolled screening. Do not glue these
in place. Then Doc says to tightly roll a piece of 3-inch
by 36-inch screening around the dowel as you did
before and insert it into the PVC pipe.

Align the silencer with the gun's bore by inserting a
.22-caliber cleaning rod into the bore of the weapon,
being certain a foot or so is sticking out the end of the
barrel. Carefully slide the silencer unit over the clean-
ing rod and onto the gun, with the open end going
back to the rear bushing.

When you tighten the unit down on the weapon
with hose clamps, be certain the silencer stays aligned
with the bore. If the cleaning rod moves easily in and
out of the bore and unit, the alignment is OK. Doc also
says it would be a whole lot safer if you remove the
cleaning rod from the bore before you fire the weapon.

WASHERS

Products from around the home make up the materials list for this cardboard, screening, and PVC-pipe silencer You can
make it at your kitchen table simply and cheaply. (Illustration courtesy of P. Elliot Ditz)

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THE GREAT SCREEN TEST

If you can wrap screen around a pencil, rip tape,
and read these instructions, you can easily build this
silencer. Before starting, I want to give credit to one of
California's own fun guys, an original Valley Guy, John
Van de Kamp.

Here's all you need to build this silencer for your
very own: electrician's tape, a small pin punch, a
dowel or pencil, and two pieces of aluminum or
bronze screening. One will be 8 inches by 28 inches,
the other 6 inches by 28 inches.

First, remove the front sight from your weapon. Use
a small pin punch or nail to drive out the pin holding
the sight. If you can't remove the sight, you'll have to
use the electrical tape to build up a mounting bushing
around and over the sight. In any case, be sure to tape
the end of the barrel so the screening doesn't scratch it.

Now you can prepare the screening, which will
diffuse the noise of the gunshot. Lay out the 6-inch strip
and tightly roll it around the dowel or pencil. When
you come to the end, tape it together in the middle.
This screen roll ought to match the outside diameter of
your .22 rifle or pistol barrel. Set this inner screen unit
flush against the bore of your weapon, using the dowel
or pencil as an alignment guide into the bore itself.

Next, roll the 8-inch strip around the already rolled
inner screen that is still on the dowel or pencil in the
bore of the weapon. Set the larger screen flush with the
front of the 6-inch screen, which means that two inches
will extend back over the taped barrel. This will hold
the silencer on the weapon.

Carefully wrap this larger screen over the inner one
and the barrel, making it fit fairly tightly. About five or
six wraps ought to make the entire silencer unit fairly

A bit of tape, two rolls of screening, and some other odds and ends will give you an effective homemade silencer. Just
follow the steps and you'll have this silencer ready to go in a very short while . . . and it really works! (Illustration courtesy
of Park E. Deets)

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snug on the gun. Use scissors to remove excess screen-
ing from the outer roll.

The last step is to wrap the entire unit with either
electrician's or duct tape. Be sure you put at least three
or four layers around the unit and back onto the barrel
for a couple of inches.

Oh yeah; remember that dowel or pencil you used
to roll the first screen? Be sure you remove it from the
silencer and the bore before you fire the gun. An
unwanted, nasty surprise awaits those who don't.

Crude? You say it looks crude?

You're right, it does look crude. But it works well
for a few shots. What do you want, good looks or good
quiet?

A TIP OF THE CAP

Ever wonder what to do with all those caps you
wrench off of beer and pop bottles? Well stop tossing
them away. Remove them gently, add some plastic or
aluminum tubing, and you've got yet another silencer
for your. 22.

The cap 'n tube silencer is easy to make; a piece of
kitchen-table pie, as it were. You'll need about twenty
bottle caps, which is about five minutes of serious
drinking for some of my old pals at The Lantern, a
piece of aluminum tubing into which the caps will fit
snugly, an end cap for the tube, electrician's tape, and
a hose clamp.

As usual, the first step is to make a bushing of
electrician's tape just behind the front sight. The tube
for the silencer has to fit snugly, and very snugly at that,
over the bushing.

Either remove the front sight from your gun or cut a
slot into the aluminum tube for the sight. You will need

The bottle cap silencer gives you a useful way to get rid of all of the used soda- and beer-bottle caps you used to trash.
Pack them properly inside a pipe as described in the text and you'll have a splendid silencer for your .22 pistol or rifle.
(Illustration courtesy of Nester Furringstrip)

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to cut enough so the slot is about 1 /2-inch longer than
the fit, meaning that there should be about 1 /2-inch of
tube going back past the front sight. Your hacksaw will
handle this easily. Use the file to really smooth things
over, getting rid of burrs.

Next, drill the bottle caps and end cap using a 5/16
drill bit. The end cap, which fits over the tube, needs to
be filed open slightly larger. Insert a pencil or .22-
caliber-sized dowel into the first bottle cap. Then, start
adding on the rest of the caps, being sure that you stack
them as you drilled them-all in one direction.

The last cap should snug the pile downward. Insert
the dowel into the tube. Put the end cap in place over
the top of the tube to hold the caps down, securing it
with epoxy, a setscrew, or by compression. Now insert
the entire unit onto the gun's bore for alignment. Re-
move the dowel before firing the weapon.

LISA'S PIPE DREAM

You know, it's too bad that today's adolescent street
scum are so affluent that they can afford to buy an il-
legal Uzi, AK-47, or Ingram before they're 10 or 12
years of age. They're missing one of the real rituals of
young manhood -making a zip gun out of pipe. Excuse
me, it was just the old fart in me digressing about the
good ole days. Sigh.

Although almost anyone can make a simple pipe
silencer, I like the design by Lisa Flema, the scourge of
the Hotel. Lisa's silencer (and boy, could she use one)
requires a 7-inch piece of PVC or aluminum pipe. The
inner diameter of the pipe must match the outer diam-
eter of the gun barrel to which you will attach this si-
lencer. If the pipe is larger, you will have to use elec-
trician's tape to create a mounting bushing as before.

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You will also need a hose clamp, a piece of cellular
sponge or soft rubber, and some copper scouring
sponges. Lisa prefers Chore Boy pure copper sponges.
You will need electrician's or duct tape as well.

The first step is to drill four rows of evenly spaced
1/4-inch holes in the pipe. The commercial silencer
makers tell us that these holes need to be 90 degrees
apart. Next, slide the pipe onto the gun barrel far
enough to seat it securely. Lisa says if you want to keep
your front sight on the gun, you can always cut a slot
for it on the pipe.

Fit the hose clamp near the end of the pipe and the
front of the gun and tighten it firmly. The silencer must
be firmly mounted, with no wobble or sway.

Take out your Chore Boy copper sponges, remove
the rivet, and carefully unfold them as flat as possible.
Wrap each sponge around the pipe as tightly as pos-
sible. Completely cover the pipe with three or four
layers of copper sponge.

You need an end cap to fit on the end of your pipe.
This is where the soft rubber or cellular sponge comes
in. (Or perhaps you can get an appropriately sized one-
hole rubber stopper from a science teacher, lab worker,
or student.) If you need to cut the hole yourself, do it
with a sharp razor or X-acto knife. Cut an X in the
center of the sponge. When you insert it into the pipe,
be certain the alignment between the bore, the silencer
pipe, and the plug is proper. As before, you can do this
with a wooden dowel or cleaning rod.

Use two or three layers of duct or electrician's tape
to completely cover the rubber plug and copper wrap-
ping. Leave your alignment tool intact until you're
finished covering the silencer with the tape. But be sure
you remove it before you test the unit.

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When you do test it, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
This is a very effective silencer. Nice can, Lisa.

* * * * *

You've come to the end of the simpler silencer
designs in this volume. The designs in the next chapter
are only a bit more complex.

As always, gentle reader, if you have a silencer
design of your own you'd like to share with me and the
readers, don't be shy. Send sketches, photos, plans,
explanations, uses, results, or whatever, to me: George
Hayduke, P.O. Box 1307, Boulder, CO 80306. And,
yes, I answer my own mail personally and as promptly
as possible.

CHAPTER 6

Clever Designs For Clever Smarties

Yes, I used the word complex at the end of the last
chapter. But please, don't panic. You still don't need a
lathe or have to be on a first name basis with the
neighborhood machinist to make a good quality,
working silencer from these designs. You might have to
move a small wood block onto your kitchen table to
back up a minor amount of drilling, but it'll be well
worth it.

These silencers will work a bit more efficiently
because of their design. In other words, they will make
your gun even quieter than the silencers in the previous
chapter. And, even though the designs are still basic
and quite easy to construct using common tools and
materials, the results will look more professional. The
only technical additions I'm imposing on you here are
ported barrels to bleed off explosive gases and some
metal baffles to form expansion chambers to trap and
quiet the exploding gases.

So, enough technical pedantry. As Rudyard Kipling,
inventor of the kippered herring, once noted, "It's
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ing a schematic for a silencer design . . . which, by
coincidence, is coming up in the very next paragraph.

THE BAFFLING GASSER

No, this doesn't refer to the flatus of Uncle Gerry
and Rusty. What I mean is this silencer design uses a
series of baffled chambers made with washers and
spacers or with a series of automotive frieze plugs that
will help quiet the sound of gunshots. Building this
silencer is fairly simple, and I will give you a generic
description that you can modify or adapt to your own
weapon, caliber, design plans, or imagination.

To make the generic model, you'll need a steel or
aluminum tube about 10 inches long and as close as
possible to the diameter of the frieze plugs you're going
to use as baffles. You'll need enough plugs to fill about
60 percent of the tube. You will also need a hose
clamp to hold your silencer on the gun (or a muffler
clamp if it is going to be large-caliber model), electri-
cian's tape, and possibly rivets to fasten the end of the
tube to the final plug.

The first step is to prepare the gun barrel to take the
silencer. You can use a tape roll, a cardboard adapter
with the same inside diameter as the tube, or you can
create an adapter from a block of wood. Use an ap-
propriately sized saw to make the block round, then
put a hole through it equal to the outside diameter of
the tube and slide it over the barrel. Tape the barrel
first, of course, to prevent scratches. Then, tape the
adapter to the barrel to keep it on firmly and to seal
against escaping gas.

Next, drill holes through the center of the frieze
plugs, using a bit that is just slightly larger than the
caliber of the weapon you'll be using. Be careful of

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alignment in this step. Use a cleaning rod or dowel as
an improvised alignment gauge.

Use a hammer and wooden dowel to force the
plugs into the tube. Do it firmly but gently, not as if
you're trying to demolish something; you might if you
do this too hard. Position the first plug about two-thirds
of the way down the tube. Install the rest of the plugs
on top of that one. The last plug must be flush with the
end of the tube, so you may have to do some adjusting
as you go. Use the rod to maintain proper alignment. It
has to be correct.

Drill a few evenly spaced holes in the end of the
tube and that last plug. Use a drill bit that is the same
size as the rivets you'll be using. When the holes are
done, rivet the tube and the last plug together.

You may want to cut some evenly spaced expan-
sion slots at the other end of the tube to permit easier
mounting of the silencer to the adapter on the barrel. If
you don't need them, don't bother. Install the silencer
carefully, keeping that rod in as an alignment gauge.

Use either the hose or muffler clamp to hold the
silencer in place on the end of the gun. Tighten it
slowly and carefully until it is firmly in place.

You now have a professional-looking silencer that
will work very well. Happy shooting.

A PIPED PIPER

This adaptation of a basic design owes its genesis to
the imaginative fictions of The Sarah Brady Institute of
Political Chicanery in Maryland. It is a cosmetic and
structural improvement over Lisa's Pipe Dream.

Rather than repeat all of those instructions, let's just
start from where you're supposed to wrap duct or
electrician's tape around the Chore Boy sponges and

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A simple but useful silencer can be made by fastening a ported piece of pipe to your gun barrel, surrounding it with steel
wool, then enclosing that in a larger pipe with small holes drilled in it to bleed explosive gases slowly and quietly.
'O (Illustration courtesy of Abagail Landers)

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rubber plug, creating an outer shell for the silencer.
Stop! Don't wrap any tape. Here is a more clever
design to finish off what is already a great silencer.

We're going to use another piece of pipe to create
that outer covering. So, proceed as in Chapter 5, only
stop before the final step of wrapping tape over the guts
of the silencer.

The outer tube needs to be of sufficient diameter to
fit over the wrapped inner pipe, and of sufficient length
to cover the inner pipe and extend about two inches
further for mounting.

You'll need a frieze plug here, too. Drill a center
hole in the plug using a bit just slightly larger than the
caliber of the gun. Fit the plug over the outer tube and
drill a series of small, evenly spaced holes into both.
You will be riveting the plug and the tube together, so
select a drill bit to match the rivet size.

At the other end of the outer tube you may want to
neatly cut three or four slots to facilitate mounting to
the weapon. You will also need to make two mounting
adapters on the inner tube with electrician's tape, one
in front of the Chore Boy wrap and one behind it.
These adapters obviously need to be the same diameter
as the inner diameter of the outer tube.

The outer tube unit is mounted on the gun by
carefully sliding it over the inner pipe so it fits snugly
against the tape adapters. Firmly fasten it with a large
hose clamp over the rear adapter so the unit is solid. As
always, you want to use the dowel or cleaning rod to
make absolutely certain your silencer has proper
alignment all the way from bore to frieze plug.

That's it. Now go enjoy some quiet shooting time.

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TUBE BE OR NOT TUBE BE

I saw this basic design while visiting the Oliver
North Attitude Adjustment Clinic in Retrete, El Salva-
dor. The clinic, run by the Brothers of the Treasury
Police, had a two-tube silencer among its medical
supplies. An interesting design, and it's one you can
produce in the privacy of your own home.

You'll need two pieces of aluminum or PVC tubing,
each about 4 or 5 inches long. One piece needs to be
an inch in diameter and the other should be an inch
and a half. These sizes will need to be increased, of
course, if you opt for a larger-caliber silencer. The
generic design presented here is for a .22-caliber
weapon.

You will also need some screening, 5 inches by
about 30 inches, a cellular sponge, a rubber baffle or
one-hole rubber stopper, six to eight frieze plugs or
some other type of washer, and two or three aluminum
spacers about an inch long.

The larger tube will attach to the weapon by hose
clamp, setscrew, or compression. Prepare the barrel
with the usual tape barrier to build it to size and/or
protect its finish.

The sponge, rubber plug, or stopper goes into the
far end of the smaller tube. If your plug doesn't already
have a hole in it, cut an X into its center before you
insert it into the tube. A frieze plug, with a hole cen-
tered and drilled, is then riveted over that end of the
smaller tube.

Using a dowel or cleaning rod for a core, wrap the
screening very tightly. Insert this screening roll into the
smaller tube. Check for alignment.

The frieze plugs and aluminum spacers go into the
front end of the larger tube to create expansion cham-

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bers for the gases. Alternate three or four of the plugs
with a spacer. Place the last plugs so that you still have
an inch of empty space before the end of the tube. You
will also have about 2 inches or so of open space at the
rear of this tube (the end that mounts to the weapon).
That's fine, because that is your first expansion cham-
ber and it needs to be large to handle the initial rush of
explosive gases that follow the bullet out of the barrel.

Next, combine the two tubes by sliding the open
end of the smaller into the larger. You may have to
make an electrical-tape bushing on the smaller one so
that the fit is snug, depending on how much play there
is between the two tubes. The screen end of the smaller
tube should butt against the final section of plugs and
washers in the larger tube. Check the alignment of the
two tubes with your cleaning rod.

For a good gas seal, apply some epoxy where the
two tubes are joined. If you wish to make this joint
more cosmetically natural, use a compression band,
solder (real or liquid), or some form of aluminum putty.

You need to align the silencer and the bore after
you mount the unit on the weapon. Use the hose
clamp, a setscrew, or a compression fitting to secure
the unit to the gun. Make it snug so the silencer is
mounted firmly.

* * * * *

Friends, this is the end of our how-to section for this
book. As I noted in the last chapter, I welcome your
correspondence and ideas on silencer designs ... for
informational purposes only, of course. I am George
Hayduke and I am available at P.O. Box 1307,
Boulder, CO 80306. Thank you.

CHAPTER 7

My Conscience And You

We're done. The tools are away, you've cleaned up
the slight amount of scraps and minor construction
debris from the kitchen table, and you've got a nice
silencer or three for your favorite firearms. Again, like a
board-certified Jewish grandmother nagging you to eat
your chicken soup, I want to remind you to be sure
your silencer is properly registered with our good
friends at BATF. Don't even think about starting to
build your own silencer until you get back an approved
Form 1 from them.

As you all know, I am a stickler for following every
government regulation, and I want you to be, too. Old
Benjamin Franklin must have had the feds in mind
when he wrote, "Mankind are very odd creatures. One
half censure what they practice, the other half practice
what they censure."

Also, only a hard-core, terminal cynic would think
that I have advocated that you do anything illegal. I'm
not telling you anything in this book to help you cir-
cumvent or ignore the laws about silencers. Indeed, I
am trying to help you do your thing legally.

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Therefore, treat this book and its design plans for
entertainment and educational purposes only until you
have satisfied the local, state, and federal governments
and their various clerical and enforcement minions.
After all, they are servants of We, the People. Or, to
paraphrase Edgar Allen Poe, the only thing the com-
mon people have to do with laws is to obey them.

So obey those great laws out there, folks. And enjoy
your silencers. As I've written, these designs really
work. But do your work carefully and safely. Firearms
and silencers are dangerous to people on either side of
the muzzle, so please use all sorts of good sense and
caution. Don't get careless and don't get hurt. As the
gentle and wise precinct roll-call sergeant on "Hill
Street Blues" used to say, "Let's be careful out there."

As a final bit of homily, in every book I've ever
written, I have always cautioned people against doing
anything in anger or bragging about what you are going
to do or have done. This is especially important when
firearms are concerned and even more so in the case of
silencers.

Face it; silencers have a bad reputation despite the
fact that they are simply combinations of metal, plastic,
rubber, and other materials engineered into a sound
muffler. It's the irresponsible silencer user who deserves
the reputation. So be cool. Keep it very quiet if you're
having fun with silencers. And always remember the
words of Henry Wheeler Shaw, a wonderful American
humorist who used the pen name Josh Billings: "Silence
is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

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